Hometown Hostau - Media
Discover Hostau in our media center. Experience the town's history during the centuries. Check out the reunion videos, photos and read through our various eBooks.
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Videos
DVD Trailer - Reunion in Dillingen
2008 we celebrated 20 years of patronage over the Sudentengerman people of Hostau by the city of Dillingen.
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Reunion Hostau 2007
Impressions during reunion 2007 in Hostau with Bishop Prof. Dr. Gerhard Ludwig Müller.
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Reunion Dillingen 2006
Impressions during reunion 2006 in Dillingen at the Danube.
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Bezirk Hostau (German)
The new edition of the "Hostauer Heimatbuch" is overdue for many years. This present, fourth edition will also offer guidance for future generations to find their way in the area of their ancestor origins. The German-Bohemian court district Hostau (Hostouň) was with its 210 square kilometers, the largest of the three judicial districts in the district Bischofteinitz (Horšovský Tyn). It was a borderland in the upper reaches of the Radbusa, in wooded mountains and hills, interspersed with numerous fields reaching up to 600m alltitude. For each village of the district next to a historical summary a map can be found as well as a housing and people directory, a list of the fallen and missing persons of both world wars and the expulsion of the dead, in addition photos, episodes, life and other interesting facts from each village are also included. Kids Games, dialect, customs, songs, recipes, legends, humor, stories and poems are offered; Finally, the pastors, teachers and famous personalities of the home district are presented. After reports about the country and people, settlements and history of the deanery, the second part of the work is about the city Hostau and her parish's administrative distric, the third of the remaining eight church districts: Eisendorf (Zelezná), Holy Cross (Újezd Svatého Kříže) Melmitz (Melnice), mother village (Mutěnín) Plösser (Ples), bulk ass (Štítary) Sirb (Srby) and Weißensulz (Bela nad Radbuzou). The fourth part describes the life of the people, the last one, finally the expulsion and the recovery. That the expulsion was not an end forever, and how lively the communities of the villages still are is described in the final part of the book.
Publications
Find here a list of all contributions submitted to the Sudetengerman paper by the town council of Hostau.
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